Adro can do that.

Then they can get drinks at a bar in Dave's hometown. Dave has friends who work in construction and security and drive food trucks and clean the shuttleports.

Mostly purple. Dave knows where it's at.

"It's a weird system," says one of Dave's friends. "Like, do I want government work, fuck no, but I think it'd piss me off if they were like 'no, we don't take your kind'."

"I might wanna be a senator," says the guy who cleans the shuttleports. "Seems like a cool job, odd jobs really, figure out what people want and get it done."

"They don't have to say they don't, it's just a thing," says Cahmro. "But you're aliens so it's not like that I guess."

"It seems a weird way for things to be like, like, I've got a sister who's smart as fuck and if she wants to be a kickasss union boss or start a company or whatever then that's great, right, but if she wants to go off to a fancy Warp university seems weird to be like 'nope' -"

"Well, you're aliens," repeats Cahmro. "I think there's a place where intercaste kids are the same sex parent's caste? Maybe if you weren't aliens you could be that."

" - my mom tailors dresses and my dad worked on an oil rig."

"'S all purple. But you're aliens. So your sister can do whatever." Shrug.

"Everything's purple."

"That's what I keep saying," Dave says. "Purple is the fucking caste, man. The rest of 'em are like accessories."

Cahmro grins.

Dave grins back at him. 

Drinks! Yum. Alien booze.

"Shouldn't have too many, not s'posed to teleport drunk and I gotta take you home."

"Yeah, all right, I don't wanna wind up merged with a fuckin' tree or something." Snort. "Or in the sea."

"Sorry 'bout that."

"'S okay, I don't blame you, dude."

"A thing they really drill into you in the meetings with the probation officer is, like, 'people who are around you when you're abusing your power, they don't know if they're going to make it home', and, like - yeah."

"Yeah it was scary. I still think they overdid it on you though."

Shrug. "Blues."

"Blues!" He shakes a fist vaguely.

"Ours aren't even blue! But they are, you know, important people leading important-people kinds of lives, that's just how a government's always gonna end up being."

"Even with your fancy trial by random people off the street and your fancy unweigh- un- unweighted votes."

"Oh, I think we're miles better than Calado. - not for queers I guess but for everyone else."

"If you're tryin' to stop people from being tortured I guess your heart's in the right place. Don't kill me I've already fucked dudes."